Staff Engineer

Shipt

Staff Engineer leading architectural strategy for core integrations at Shipt. Driving the technical roadmap and ensuring systems scalability while mentoring junior engineers.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeSan Francisco • Alabama, California, Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $95,800 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKafkaMicroservicesPostgresRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as a pivotal technical leader and architect, defining the future of the high-scale systems that power our core enterprise platform and vendor integration ecosystem.
Own the architecture and technical quality for all applications developed by your team.
Lead the design and evolution of highly available microservices using technologies like Golang, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka.
Drive strategic initiatives to optimize the stability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical systems.
Establish the domain-wide standard for operational excellence.
Set the highest bar for engineering fundamentals including test coverage and code quality.
Evaluate and evolve engineering processes to eliminate systemic inefficiencies and improve team velocity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of software development experience, specifically building and maintaining complex, highly distributed systems in cloud environments at significant scale.
Deep expertise in Golang (or similar systems languages) and a sophisticated understanding of relational databases, advanced caching strategies, and message brokers (Kafka).
A proven ability to diagnose, resolve, and prevent complex bottlenecks in distributed architectures, high-volume services, and database query performance.
You are a dedicated mentor who can grow the careers of those around you.
You thrive in environments with high degrees of freedom, taking full architectural ownership and driving the "Definition of Done" for your services from concept to operation.
You possess the judgment to balance the need for architectural purity with the reality of business delivery.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.
Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave.
Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangPostgresRedisKafkamicroservicescloud environmentsdistributed systemstest coveragecode qualitydatabase query performance

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipproblem-solvingstrategic initiative drivingoperational excellenceteam velocity improvementarchitectural ownershipjudgment in decision makingcollaborationadaptability